Border czar Harris criticized for allegedly using images of sheriff and prosecutor in campaign ad without permission – DNyuz

A California sheriff and district attorney are outraged after border czar Kamala Harris allegedly used their images in a campaign ad without first asking for permission or even notifying them.

On August 9, Harris, who had just won enough delegate support to secure the Democratic nomination for president in the 2024 election without running in a single primary in her state, released a campaign ad touting her record as California attorney general and as vice president.

“We are not hard to find or contact people. Simple professional courtesy would have warned us that it would be used.”

The ad portrays Harris as tough on crime, particularly when it comes to drug cartels and illegal immigration. It also features a montage of images of Harris standing alongside other law enforcement officials — including Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux and District Attorney Tim Ward.

Boudreaux and Ward were both strongly opposed to the ad and their brief appearance in it.

“In light of a recent political ad by Kamala Harris featuring Sheriff Boudreaux and other local law enforcement officials, the Sheriff wants to make it clear that his likeness is being used without his permission and that he is NOT endorsing Harris for president or any other political office,” the Sheriff said in a statement.

Ward expressed similar frustration that his image had apparently been used without permission. “As Sheriff Boudreaux said, I do not want the use of that photograph to be construed in any way as an endorsement of (Harris) in her candidacy, her current candidacy, or her tenure as Attorney General of the State of California,” Ward said.

“We are not hard to find or contact. It would have been just professional courtesy to warn us that it would be used. And I think we have every right to clarify the data.”

Tulare County officials also said the ad painted a “misleading” picture of Harris’ time as California’s attorney general.

“In the ad, Harris claims he spent decades fighting violent crime as a ‘border state prosecutor,’” Boudreaux said.

“The truth is that Harris never cared about the cartels and did nothing to stop people from crossing the border illegally.”

Ward added that Harris oversaw “three of the worst tragedies that have befallen the citizens of the state of California,” but when he elaborated on the circumstances of those “tragedies,” Fox News did not include that information in its reporting.

“The hypocrisy knows no bounds,” Ward claimed.

Finally, Boudreaux seemed particularly irritated by Harris’s seemingly elitist and arrogant demeanor. He recalled that during a brief visit to his jurisdiction more than a decade ago, Harris ignored the officers and other officials who had made the arrests that put her in a good light.

“We were in the green room. She never came in and said hello to any of us. She walked up, gave her press conference, literally walked away and never said hello to any of us,” he alleged. “I’m disgusted because, you know, she didn’t shake hands. She didn’t say hello. And she took credit for all the work that the locals did.”

Harris’ campaign did not respond to a request for comment from The New York Post about the sheriff’s and district attorney’s statements.

These allegations of allegedly mishandled images come as Harris’ campaign continues to fend off accusations that vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz repeatedly misrepresented his service in the Minnesota Army National Guard, an action often referred to as stolen valor.

Video shows Walz repeatedly stated that he was retiring with the rank of command sergeant major, when in fact he was retiring as a master sergeant, because he had not completed the training and coursework required to retire as a command sergeant major. He also bragged about carrying weapons “in war,” video shows, even though he never actually served in a combat zone.

Former colleagues from the unit have also accused Walz of leaving the National Guard prematurely after learning they would soon be deployed to Iraq. Walz retired in May 2005, in the midst of his first congressional campaign, while his former battalion was ordered to mobilize in August.

The unit was then deployed to Iraq in March 2006 and spent 22 months there, during which time four of Walz’s fellow Guardsmen died.

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